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In the Everything of 2022, one of the things that fell by the wayside was one of my favorite forms of self-care: reading for pleasure. I read for work and I read for school and I read for news, but I didn’t spend nearly as much time as I would have liked reading just to read. And looking back, I’m certain that contributed to the Small Depression Spirals I hit throughout the year, leading up to the Big Depression Spiral I landed in for the holidays.

As I began figuring out how to climb out of that hole, a digital library hold I’d placed on Kazuo Ishiguro’s sci-fi novel Klara and the Sun came in, and I jumped in without a second thought. It was the first book I read in 2023 and it gave me the momentum I needed to pick up another book, and another.

This year, I’d like to do monthly round-ups of what I’m reading, both to give me space to reflect on those books soon after finishing, and to help me track my favorites as we move through the year! I’m kicking things off with my five favorite reads from January 2023, as seen below and on Instagram. (Speaking of which, if you’re not following me on my new Instagram account, what are you waiting for?)

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